From 2dd7c567c03a343038a0d702b32aa94e2021873d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jozef Sovcik Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 18:36:01 +0200 Subject: PySerial installation for Windows updated (#1) --- README.md | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0ac086d..92e867d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -122,8 +122,20 @@ sudo port install py27-serial On Windows: -You need to install Cygwin and its packages for Make, Perl and the following Serial library -or you can install it using the [pre-built package installer](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial) +You need to install Cygwin and its packages for Make, Perl and the following Serial library. + +Assuming you included Python in your Cygwin installation: + +1. download PySerial source package from [https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial) +2. extract downloaded package running +```tar xvzf dowloaded_package_name.tar.gz``` +3. navigate to extracted package folder +4. build and install Python module: + +``` +python setup.py build +python setup.py install +``` ## Usage -- cgit v1.2.3